As I work myself up the ladder at my job, I find myself managing more and more tasks and people. When it was a couple of us, and a few project this was not a problem. Back then I kept everything in a simple text document. Every day I’d re-prioritize the bulleted list in notepad and make notes next to each item as progress was made. But after a few months that file became an eye sore.<\/p>\n
So we tried the common project management tools: Microsoft Project, 37 Signal’s Basecamp, 5pm.com, Todo.ly, and even the new Trello. And all failed.<\/p>\n
It’s not that they’re bad tools. They are great tools…for some companies. But our company works differently. We don’t have due dates. We don’t have recurring tasks. We don’t need to exchange large files around. We simply have a few clients, which always have a few outstanding tasks (which are constantly being\u00a0re-prioritized), and a few staff members. I couldn’t find something that worked for our setup.<\/p>\n
I simply wanted a tool that could allow us to:<\/p>\n
I wanted a tool that didn’t exist.<\/p>\n
So I built one.<\/p>\n